Stamp • Mark • Code • Identify Industrial Marking Equipment & Supplies “One Stop Shopping” for all of your factory marking and identiﬁcation needs. Package Date Coding Equipment & Supplies Whether marking lot numbers, expiration dates, or general package coding, we have the type, dies, or ink jet inks needed. Hot Stamping Equipment & Supplies No matter what your hot stamping application, we manufacture and supply an extensive array of type, dies & foils to ﬁt your every hot stamping need. Marking & Identification Specialists Industrial Marking Equipment & Supplies Press Stamps: We manufacture a wide variety of custom steel stamps in any shape or size (ﬂat, round, contoured or tapered) to ﬁt virtually any marking press. Stamps are made from any customer print or speciﬁcation with appropriate steel to match the application. • Press Dies with shank • Male/Female Embossing Dies • Steel Dies & inserts • Roll Dies Steel Hand Stamps: We offer the widest variety of steel hand stamps for virtually any application. • Hevi-Bevl (sharp face) • Reverse • Letter/Number • Inspection • Custom • Low stress full • Low stress dot • Border • APIQ • Line Hand Stamp Holders: Highest quality hand stamp holders in a variety of styles to promote safety in the workplace. • Adjustable • Strap style • Jumbo Strap style • Custom Applications Inspection Stamps: Identify acceptance, rejection, deviation, or other code marking. Number codes or symbols can be used to identify individual inspector, work station, or shift code. Choose from rugged steel for indenting or quick apply rubber for ink inspection stamps. Peg Stamps: Our peg stamps are ideal for stamping very small text into hard to reach areas. They can be used for marking metal or plastic parts or any other non-porous surface. 2 Industrial Marking Equipment & Supplies Steel Type: Slotted Type Utility Type Our standard Slotted Type and Utility Type will satisfy every industrial marking application where interchangeable information is required. Available in a variety of popular character sizes. We also manufacture custom styles of steel type to ﬁt any industrial marking machine including embossing type for can marking. Hand-Held Style Steel Type Holders: Hand-Held Ideal for marking nameplates, tags, keys, stock checks, brand names or stock numbers. Sledge-Style Sledge-Style Steel Type Holders: Sledge-style holders allow for heavy-duty stamping on hot and cold materials and products. Impressions are made when struck with a heavy-duty hammer. Hammer handle clears striking point for safer use when marking nameplates, tags, keys, stock checks, brand names or stock numbers. Press-Style Press-style Steel Type Holders: Our type holders accommodate a variety of type sizes and capacities – and ﬁt any press. Holders can be provided with round, square or dovetail shanks. Hammers: OE Hammer Cut Letter Hammers speciﬁcally designed for marking in a variety of styles to promote safety in the workplace. Supplied with impact resistant ﬁberglass handle. • OE Hammer – Our legendary shock steel sledge hammer • Inspector-style – Uses interchangeable marking inserts • Cut Letter – Custom engraved marking hammers Inspector-Style Center Punch: Our Center Punch Marking Tool with its spring loaded action requires only hand pressure to mark. Quick change inserts are available with alphanumeric characters, symbols and custom logos. Overall tool is 6” including insert. The Center Punch tool can also be integrated into a ﬁxture for making a pass/fail mark, machine code, or other identiﬁcation. Great for inspection! 3 Industrial Marking Equipment & Supplies Presses: Our Durable Mecco Presses provide versatility in manufacturing applications including marking, numbering, stamping, punching, shearing, piercing, forming, or assembly. Available in bench models, and universal mounting arrangements for manual, automatic, and in-line operations. Our engineers will work with you to design custom yet practical solutions including special tooling, nests and controls. Roll Marking Presses: Our Hand or Air-Powered Cylindrical Marking Machines are ideal for light duty marking of cylindrical or round parts with an even depth of impression. Press-Style Hand-Held Numbering Heads: Press style or hand-held numbering heads are used for any volume production marking and where versatility for automatic or manual advance numbering is required to stamp repetitive sequences such as product codes, part numbers, date codes, or lettering applications. Dot Peen Markers: Our MC2000 line of dot peen markers utilize a carbide pin to indent the marking surface with continuous lines, logos and 2D Data Matrix bar codes by programming the marker via a system controller – stand alone or integrated. Traceability information such as date/time stamping, part serialization and operator identiﬁcation can be easily marked on your parts. 4 Portable In-Line Industrial Marking Equipment & Supplies Industrial Markers: Write-on permanent ink and paint markers, as well as removable ink markers in a variety of colors for virtually any application. Ideal for use in all industrial environments. Dot Marker Ink Jet: Our DOT MARKER Ink Jet Printer is a non-contact dot marker system which is ideal for placing marking dots on any type of surface. Marking speeds of up to 400 dots per second are standard. Up to 600 dots per second can be reached and in those cases where the marking line is not at a constant speed, an optional encoder is available. Our Dot Marker is also PLC compatible. Great for… • Process veriﬁcation • Product installation points • Pass/Fail marks • Specify length or break points Engraving: We are the one source for all your marking and industrial engraving needs. We engrave molds, mold inserts, graduations, ﬁxtures, dials and any other customer supplied parts for any industrial engraving application. Contract Part Marking: We offer a wide array of part marking services to direct mark any size or shape customer supplied piece. Whether it is marking part numbers, a company logo, or simple informational instructions, we can mark, stamp, or engrave any text or logo onto virtually any surface - metal, plastic, wood, leather, glass, etc. Single piece or short runs to large volume requirements. 5 Industrial Marking Equipment & Supplies Facility ID Signs: Aluminum • Plastic • Vinyl OSHA required signs come in several sizes and materials with a wide variety of wording so you can choose the sign that best ﬁts your needs. Choose a standard header and specify any custom verbiage message to appear below the header. Standard header can also be ordered with no custom message. Pipe Identification: Valve Tags: Pipe marker choices include vinyl adhesive label style for clean, dry surfaces. Wrap-around style pipe markers are made for rugged environments where grease and grime are a challenge. Standard and custom legends are available to meet the requirements of any new construction or maintenance project. Complete your pipe id by combining with color coded banding and directional arrow tapes a variety of aluminum, brass or stainless steel valve tag options that can be lettered and/or numbered. Nameplates & Tags: We offer a wide array of nameplates and tags which are perfect for identifying machines, equipment and property. Plastic, brass, aluminum and stainless steel are ideal for identifying inventory, equipment, baskets, cables, hoses, pipes, valves, animal licenses and many more. Labels & Scales: Plastic or metal labels and scales can be stamped, engraved or printed. Perfect for model and serial number plates, warning and instructional plates, machines ID and gauge or button control plates. Detail Presses: Numbering and Lettering Presses allow you to indent a variety of items with numbers and letters, including nameplates, motor plates, tags, keys, social security plates and similar ﬂat metal parts. 6 Industrial Marking Equipment & Supplies Number/Letter Stamps: Made-to-order Band Stamps may include any number of bands, alpha or numeral characters and any size of type. Your band stamp can be made up of numbers and/or letters. Each letter or numeral position in your imprint is a band. Numeral bands are made up of 0-9. Alpha bands are available as A-M, N-Z or A-Z. Bands can be arranged in any order. Letter/Number Stamps Date Stamps Date Stamps: Changeable date stamp with custom message above and/or below dates. Industrial Ink Stamp Pads: Stamp pads are made speciﬁcally for use with a variety of inks for individual applications. With the correct stamp pad and ink you can achieve high quality, non-smear impressions. • Opaque stamp pads • Stone stamp pads • Mark II stamp pads • Classic stamp pads Industrial Inks: We supply inks for virtually any application. Most inks are available in 4 oz. bottles to 55 gallon drums. VisiJet Ink Jet Inks are also available for continuous ink jet (CIJ) small character printing, drop on demand (DOD) large character printing, and High Resolution Inks. We supply replacement inks for nearly every OEM printer, including Videojet, Marsh, Image, Markem, Matthews, Foxjet, Willett, Linx, Loveshaw, XAAR Printheads, Trident Printheads and more. Our inks are great for printing bar codes and traceability codes used in many industries, including automotive, electronic, food and beverage, and pharmaceuticals. Stencils & Stencil Applicators: When it comes to stenciling product identiﬁcation, shipping information, or other valuable information that requires a clear and permanent mark, our stenciling products stand up to the test. Combine our stencils and applicators and you can be sure to have a “system” that will meet your coding needs. • Oilboard • Mylar • Magnesium • Brass • Brushes • Rollers • Spray cans * USE OF THE ABOVE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS IN NO WAY INDICATES MANUFACTURER’S ENDORSEMENT 7 Package Date Coding Equipment & Supplies Metal Coding Type: As the premier type supplier in the country, we manufacture brass and steel Packaging Type used for coding, imprinting, labeling, embossing and debossing. We maintain a large inventory of date coding type for Norwood Imprinters, Markem Hot Ink Rotary Coders, Fassco Cartoners, Open Date and others*. Type for Any O.E.M. Machine: We manufacture type for every brand of packaging machine* including popular O.E.M. coding machines as: Norwood IWK Open Date Allen Bartelt Schmidt Markem Marchesini Norden Fassco Paxar Pryor Bivans IMA Auto-Labe Uhlmann Medtronic Matthews Jones Arenco Kwik-Lok Bosch Prodo-Pak A.D. Joslin Avery Norwood Jones Markem Kwik-Lok Doboy Type Holders & Code Wheels: Type Holders and Code Wheels can be made to ﬁt into any coding or imprinting machine including Markem, Norwood and others*. Our engineers will design custom typeholders to any speciﬁcation in order to shorten set-up time for maximum efﬁciency and cost savings. T-Type Concave Utility Arenco Schmidt Open Date Ink Rollers: • Custom Colors & Sizes • Specialty Inks We manufacture ink rolls for nearly every contact coder on the market for hot or cold applications including corrugated and rotary marking devices. • Microporous, disposable ink rolls deliver ink in one of the most economical and cleanest methods • Hot Melt Ink Rollers are speciﬁcally made for use in hot ink coders – can accommodate any line speed or operating temperature. * USE OF THE ABOVE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS IN NO WAY INDICATES MANUFACTURER’S ENDORSEMENT 8 Package Date Coding Equipment & Supplies PACK-MARK® : PACK-MARK® Rubber Ribbed Type is used in packaging, labeling and imprinting machines. Also ﬁts most conveyorline coders and marking machines. Equivalent to other ribbed type brands such as: RibType®, Grip-Line®, Base-Loc®, Sta-Tite®, etc.* In addition to individual ribbed type characters (known as “sorts”) custom logo or text dies are available. Custom Print Dies: Ideal for special designs, trademarks or when large blocks of copy do not change. Solid print dies promote uniform typeface wear, save time and costly set-up, and prevent spelling or coding errors. Carton Coders : We offer multiple models of contact carton coders designed for marking on corrugated boxes, bag coding or web printing. Our roller coders are ideal for date coding, batch coding and product identiﬁcation. We offer random coders (continuous print) and index coders (one print per carton or bag). In these two categories are multiple models that use our patented PACK-MARK® Rubber Ribbed Type and ink rolls. Since we are not reliant on a liquid ink reservoir, our printers can be oriented in any position on a conveyor, case sealer or compression unit. Manual Roller Conveyor Line Roller * USE OF THE ABOVE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS IN NO WAY INDICATES MANUFACTURER’S ENDORSEMENT 9 Hot Stamping Equipment & Supplies All Purpose Brass & Steel Type: Kingsley Replacement Type: DuraChrome® (curved type) is ideal for marking a wide range of insulated wire and other curved surfaces such as medical vials, tubes, pen barrels, pencil handles and brushes. DuraChrome is manufactured specially to ﬁt Kingsley® and Ackerman-Gould® marking machines. Brass type is an economical, general purpose type for marking most materials such as: books, leather, plastic, paper and wood. Brass type outwears softer metals and holds up well when stamping under heat and/or pressure. Steel type is unmatched in durability and is ideal for marking harder plastics or long production runs. Our steel type is made from hardened and tempered tool steel which keeps replacement costs to a minimum. Blank Height .918” +-.001” Blank Width Char. Size Point Size Face Width Bottom Mark DurAlloy® produces clear, easy-to-read legends on ﬂat surfaces such as heat-shrink sleeving, nylon cable ties and other thermoplastics. DurAlloy is equivalent to Kingsley sleeve marking type. Logodies can be produced with any custom wording or design in brass or steel for hot or cold marking and can be machined to any size or shape to ﬁt your present type holders. Printers Type: Our wide variety of brass printers’ type faces will ﬁt any need for personalizing in such printers* as Kingsley, Kwikprint, AAmstamp, Kensol Franklin, Jackson, Gibson, Howard and virtually any other hot stamping machine. We can produce any typestyle including custom type faces and symbols and foreign languages. * USE OF THE ABOVE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS IN NO WAY INDICATES MANUFACTURER’S ENDORSEMENT 10 Hot Stamping Equipment & Supplies Hot Stamping Printers: Hot Stamping Foils: Our Hot Stamping Printers are perfect for package date coding applications and decorative printing on a wide variety of materials including leather, greeting cards, stationary, ribbon, vinyl, satin and even some plastics. We supply a variety of foils for imprinting variable data such as production dates, expiration dates, storage life, etc. Our foils are used in a variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, food packagers, plastics, and more. Both rugged and versatile, these coders are perfect for most decorative printing applications and are extremely simple to operate. Decorative Package Date Coding Magnesium Imprinting Dies: Our Magnesium Print Dies are widely used for labeling and coding in virtually any imprinting machine. Magnesium dies are also ideal for foil imprinting on plastics, leather, wood and paper. Magnesium dies are an economical and fast way to reproduce logos or insignias. Best suited for short to medium production runs. Branding Irons: BRANDING is possibly the most practical and economical way to permanently mark almost any material other than metal or glass. Fine furniture and other works of art are frequently branded to advertise a trademark, logo or manufacturer’s name or to “sign” or individualize a craftsman’s work. Branding is also used to identify tools or equipment for personal or security purposes. 11 Stamp • Mark • Code • Identify AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTOR